English Fairy Tales, The Story of the Three Little Pigs, sentence 52
“Little pig, there is a fair at Shanklin this afternoon, will you go?”
Who acts: you · What happens: be, go · To what, where: Shanklin
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Story of the Three Little Pigs. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 pig | punct |
| 2 | Little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 pig | amod |
| 3 | pig | pig | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 is | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 pig | punct |
| 5 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 6 is | expl |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 fair | cop |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 fair | det |
| 8 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 go | advcl |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 Shanklin | case |
| 10 | Shanklin | Shanklin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 fair | obl |
| 11 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 afternoon | det |
| 12 | afternoon | afternoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 fair | obl:unmarked |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 fair | punct |
| 14 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 go | aux |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 go | nsubj |
| 16 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 16 go | punct |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | you not said here | Shanklin | afternoon | fair property | tree rules | ||
| 2 | go in a quote | future | you | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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